Silences / Tillie Olsen ; introduction by Shelley Fisher Fishkin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Olsen, Tillie, author.

Fishkin, Shelley Fisher, author of introduction, etc.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature--Women authors--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

Literature.

Authorship--Sex differences.

Authorship.

Women and literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (320 p.)

Edition:

Twenty-fifth anniversary edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : The Feminist Press at City University of New York, 2003.

Summary:

Special 25th anniversary edition of the landmark survey that revolutionized the view of literary history.

Contents:

Contents; Introduction: Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic: The Lessons Silences Has Taught Us; PART ONE - SILENCES; Silences in Literature - 1962; One Out of Twelve: Writers Who Are Women In Our Century 1971; Rebecca Harding Davis: Her Life and Times - 1971, 1972; PART TWO - Acerbs, Asides, Amulets, Exhumations, Sources, Deepenings, Roundings, Expansions; SILENCES IN LITERATURE - II; Silences of the Great in Achievement; Silences-Its Varieties; The Work of Creation and the Circumstances It Demands for Full Functioning

Subterranean Forces-and the Work of Creation in Circumstances Enabling Full Function When the Claims of Creation Cannot Be Primary; The Literary Situation (1976); THE WRITER-WOMAN: ONE OUT OF TWELVE - II; Blight - Its Earliest Expression; A Sense of Wrong Voiced; Literacy; One Out of Twelve-The Figures for Writers Accorded Recognition; The Baby: The Girl-Child; The Girl; The Young Writer-Woman; The Damnation of Women; The Angel in the House; Freeing the Essential Angel; Wives, Mothers, Enablers; Blight. The Hidden Silencer-Breakdown; Hidden Blight-Professional Circumstances

Some Effects of Having to Counter and Encounter Treatment and Circumstances as a Writer Who Is Female. Denial of Circumference.Other Obstacles, Balks, Encumbrances in Coming to One's Own Voice, Vision, Circumference; PART THREE; Creativity; Potentiality. First Generation; Excerpts from Life in the Iron Mills; Miscellany; Excerpts from My Heart Laid Bare; Tillie Olsen's Reading Lists; Permission Acknowledgements; Subject Index; Name Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781558618794

1558618791

OCLC:

880530749